New Zealand Minister's push for medical marijuana
Trials for medical marijuana should be encouraged despite "prejudice" from the medical profession, Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne says.
The debate over medical marijuana has sparked up after the Australian government announced a licensing scheme to allow the cultivation of cannabis for medical trial purposes this month.
And Mr Dunne says New Zealand was "highly likely" to follow suit if the trial products were approved.
He told TVNZ's Q + A programme it would be "very, very good" to get clinical trials in New Zealand.
"I do think there is a bit of prejudice there in the medical profession.
"At the moment we've got a lot of very general talk, we talk about medical cannabis - actually there's no such thing. There's medical cannabis products.
"I think it would be very, very good to get some much more specific, scientific and clinical evidence about their efficacy before we can make...
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